| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Language, culture, and teaching |
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Language, culture, and teaching.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Home-school (dis)connections. "Lost boys," cousins and aunties: using Sudanese refugee relationships to complicate definitions of "family" -- The impact of social dynamics on immigrant children's language and literacy practices: learning from Asian families -- a mother and daughter go to school: a story of strengths and challenges -- Discontinuities and differences among Muslim Arab-Americans: making it at home and school -- Building connections between homes and schools -- Fostering academic identities among Latino immigrant students: contextualizing parents' roles -- Part II. Curriculum transformations: learning with families. Do you hear what I hear?: using the parent story approach to listen to and learn from African American parents -- Home visits: learning from students and families -- Networks of support: learning from the other teachers in children's lives -- Issues in funds of knowledge teaching and research: key concepts from a study of Appalachian families and schooling -- How knowledge counts: talking family knowledge and lived experience into being as resource for academic action -- Respecting children's cultural and linguistic knowledge: the pedagogical possibilities and challenges of multiliteracies in schools -- Part III. Conclusion. Home--school--community collaborations in uncertain times |
| Summary |
Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Home schooling -- Social aspects -- United States
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Multicultural education -- United States
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Education, Bilingual -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Parent Participation.
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Education, Bilingual
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Multicultural education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dantas, Maria Luiza.
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Manyak, Patrick C. (Patrick Charles)
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| LC no. |
2009018390 |
| ISBN |
9780203868430 |
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0203868439 |
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9781135282127 |
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1135282129 |
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9781135282073 |
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1135282072 |
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9781135282110 |
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1135282110 |
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